ericathegreat

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by ericathegreat 3y ago
There's a huge difference between: - Don't use this, it's harmful to you, and - Don't use this, it won't make things actively better. Study after study has shown that it is extremely, almost absurdly difficult to lo
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
In one case, the same person did the same thing to us twice in a row - interviewed, got an offer, then got "counter offered" from their existing company the next day. Pretty confident that they're just interviewing as a negot
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
Small counter-opinion here; if I interview a candidate, offer them a role, and find out that they have been using our time only to get a better deal from their current employer, then I will most likely choose not to interview them again in
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
This class of users is also some of the most easily scammed. These folks, who need "less security", are the exact same who will tell a stranger their password over the phone simply because they said they worked for Google. Scammer
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
I'm highly dubious of any research that equates "went to a top tier university" with "is highly intelligent" as its only metric. Especially one that also says "but outside America that's not true". Co
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
Keep in mind that this book was published 7 years ago, using data from 13 years ago. That does not mean that it is untrue, just that the statistics may no longer be as relevant or timely. (A bit more recent, from the same author: https:&#x
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
Something that you might want to consider, but which hasn't really shown up in the comments, is... Do you actually _want_ to do the finishing? Are you taking on these projects because you want the end result to exist, or because you ju
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by ericathegreat 3y ago
There are still professional, high quality hand knitters in the world. Of course, having people hand knit garments used to be the only way to get a knitted garment at all. Then we invented industrial knitting machines, and those hand knitte
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by ericathegreat 4y ago
Some input: The organism's environment. Outcome should be: The organism successfully produces offspring Natural selection is doing exactly what you describe.
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by ericathegreat 5y ago
It depends on the intent of the advice. If the advice is intended to let you "win the game", or "get ahead of the competition", then yes. If everyone is doing the same thing, then using it isn't going to provide you
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by ericathegreat 6y ago
A familiar dream, that kind of misses the actual challenge of programming is not the syntax. HTML really doesn't take long to learn - at least, not the kind that's being produced here. The hard part is unambiguously describing w
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by ericathegreat 6y ago
Why would someone pay in advance for something that they will get for free at the same time as everything else? Fundamental limitation of capitalism is that one of its goals is to acquire the maximum amount of value for yourself, while losi
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by ericathegreat 6y ago
So... If I smash in the windows of a Nike shop, steal all the shoes, then give them to homeless people, I'm excused? No crime here?
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by ericathegreat 6y ago
That's a tricky precedent to set though, isn't it? If you do sufficiently good work elsewhere in your organization, you can break the law without penalty? That's like McDonalds claiming that they should be allowed to mistreat
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
This. Absolutely. If something fails six months after release, who ends up paying the penalty? Are your developers on-call for production issues? Will they be woken up at 3 in the morning, expected to solve customer issues caused by one of
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
Would definitely recommend the mini-series documentary "Howard Goodall's Big Bangs". Episode 3 in particular, which was about equal temperament, is especially good. It explains things like scales and chords in a very satisfyi
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
Nothing stopping you from doing just that! Pick a game development technology that you like the look of (a language or framework or engine), do their basic tutorial, then drop by their forums. Almost all of them will have a "looking fo
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
Grab a makey-makey, some aluminium foil, some cardboard boxes and a laptop running Stepmania. It takes about 15 minutes for kids to hands-on make their own DDR machine. (Dance dance revolution). I've done this multiple times with upper
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
Interesting thing about annuals, is that they needn't be anywhere near as problematic as they have become. Consider - any plant which died after three months without reproducing is pretty improbably as far as evolution is concerned. An
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
And that's a genuinely great thing. Sure, by the end Flash was a pain in everyone's backside. But Flash was critical in the transformation from a text-only internet to one where we could watch videos, or play games, or chat to oth
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
I found it very easy to get it up and running with Android, although to be fair I already had the Android emulators running from my foray into React Native. I expect getting iOS emulators running would be very hard on a non Apple platform t
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
Relying on native components means that differences in platforms get propagated up into application developer land. Consider: Two "native" components have slightly different behaviours. Therefore, the framework also implicitly has
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by ericathegreat 7y ago
Gardening, teaching, volunteering. Make a go of a few of my side projects, knowing that if they failed it would be okay.
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by ericathegreat 8y ago
Agree. Consider the situation of data entry professionals, those people who transcribe audio recordings or enter data into databases. If you have one person entering data into a computer, then the odds of them introducing an error and faili
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by ericathegreat 8y ago
To be fair, not using a computer is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to maintaining your cyber security.
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by ericathegreat 8y ago
I like the look of this. A couple of questions I can't see answers to on the landing page... - Is it possible to change the schema after creation? Or is this a "get it right first time" deal? - Is validation strictly not-null
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The Accidentally Selfish Team(medium.com)
2 points by ericathegreat 8y ago|0 comments
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by ericathegreat 9y ago
I think this depends very much on what you consider the intention of a justice system to be. If it is to strive towards balance between individuals, then you are correct. If a person causes suffering, then they should experience suffering t
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Why Personalization Projects Fail(medium.com)
45 points by ericathegreat 9y ago|0 comments
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by ericathegreat 10y ago
I don't think women are more or less capable than men when it comes to coding. There's no particular aspect of the process which could make it strongly gendered. However, I regularly observe a selection bias, which sometimes makes

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